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alove ail, feeling ms mains from the Prince himself, which will | that time In April he and bis brother went to) had seen old men tottering on their eruteh to the not tend to « better and hicher appreciativa of | She Umversity of Bonn, wuere they attended the| fray, and lads se young joining in the movement his great character, the Queen has nat hesi- leeturea of Schilgel, Fichte and Perthes, and | that they were compelled to reet their rifles on a ‘ ‘ .-. | while here we bave an account ef his character) rock; and he had seen them returning, to languish tated t — ‘nt tu the present publi from Prince Lowenstein, bis ebief companion,| from wounds which, under other cirenmetances, C.0R, | which closely resembles the description given of | might be enred, but which with the ineufficient | [t wil! be seen, therefore, that her Majesty | him when younger, by Count Mensdorf. He dis-| nedical aid from which the Cretans suff-red, has coudescended to take her subjects un eser. | tinguished hunself alike in mental and physical) often proved fatal, vadiy into her coufidence. She opens her heart aequirements, and was celebrated alao tor ed — ~———s0 re t» them inthis volume, and throws herself ypoy | humor and love of fun. } If your horse has a common Cold. ecatarrhal | their symmoatiiy. She is ouly anxious that the] ining nie: Samed, . on eons ip eES tear, Ganeh, y » Consort should be represented to them | TREMENDOUS CO\FLAGRATION AT | nasal discharge of a browmsh eolor,) give Sheri-

& 4 t miy t » aban { an much of the! by fire of the town of Basseterre, St. Kitts, has | a Ve : tuystery witneh usually environs a throne, bat! been received in Glasgew :— & ie ; Naya ey. ty», = ’ tl nr F } . 1 age © , hilithe ti 7 - Tif The Our town of Baseeterre ia burned te the!) ~~ NAR } i >4 cherishe in private ite. he 1: od be o » j , t , ground; over 1400 houses are eontumed, and | filly eaten ‘ ai: ies a7 + . a ete ne a ree wonton DY | in fact the town is totally and entirely destroyed. | Charlottetowa, August 23, 1997. ‘ PeCre (rey t 1 the Queen on the econtp etion Not a single store reuina, or indeed any place of | Spee apnea —— the volame for private ctreulation, and now business whatever, and it is difficult either ved : ; ro ‘ : pr (tit in its present form, will still fur-| recognize what were once the streets of the Tae Istander, in noticing the arrival at this tier explain the extent of Hor Mijesty’s con-|town. Other great fires have occurred in differ-| port of the Dominion Cutter La Ounadienne, a ioni— }ent islands, but I doubt if it is possible, compara- i ki h hs ‘ ASS Rgktiee sinar Widiodinr intensie te Bis | tively speaking, for any fire to effet more total) #84 remarking upon the object for which she t Satis ae tinias 2 : - hacer destruction than that we bave just experienced is employed, namely, the protection of the| hiid wa a ae eee Pp “SY S) The terrible werk et destruction was accom. | fisheries, alludes, at the eonclusi f ary | vil i ey ] . ™ . > eee ° | res, Alilte ? e conc : a | ’ y "es a : youd plished in the short space of about eight hours. | ; ee ee ; tea ¥sinul circie -rgonal frieuds, | ‘ jadici article, eption gi , | i have not thouy ; itr li £ on at id f| The alarm of fire was given about 11. 30 on the 2° mepees artiete, to the wébeption given by the : «es seis . d. . OF night of the 3rd of July, and was found to haye| Cutter to His Excellency the | : ee ee an he private details Con | broken out in an unvecupied house in an alley at | ta lin your Majesty's memoranda, ww 10) the back of Fort strect and close to the Gazette | 1S expresses of your Ma- newepaper office. The house was undergoing | } 5 iss given in y uur M yesty s own repairs, and waa fail of shaviogs and wood. The! their respects to her ls Some of these details. particularly! ery of fire waa hardly given before the house | yy e Islander say n ‘ } - * j f cP 3% — tuose reiting to yuur Majesty's warria re, it, Was In a complete blaze, ao it must have been | an 186 ys i unusual to include in a work in-| buruing some time before it waa discovered. A| t Led fo bore general pes uat!, thoush even} Very short space elapsed before the adjoming | ic thet case, judsing of others’ feelinss by my | haueee were slso in a blaze, giving the eceupants) McTntyre, who also visited La Canadienne the ‘ [ cannot dw't that they would meet with | barely time to escape. Before any material) same evening, was honured with the salute due |

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gold and stocks—evers body seemed to be, growing rich > and Mr. « amiable and impulsive, buat not

fpeen. ators m “wae,

Seward

Vory wise, S-eretary of State—tovk it upon wolf to assert publicly that not only had the war notimp werihed anybody, but * that it had tare ty suemented the aations! re- © purces Rut all the stateamen of Ameries were note foolish Mr. Chase knew berter ; i ventieman ef the name of AlCulloch,

yankeown ty) Faropean fame, whom Mr : pointed to the offige of +*Comptroller r-ney,’ took tt apon himself, atthe

vo ! his offictal career, to address a

eit r ty the directors and managere ot the new Nat st Banks which, to the number

re than two handred, had been instituted to earry on busmese not on the base of gold or real preperty, bat solely on that of the tiowermmen! paper money and indebredness,

» whiely he werned Chem against euch ab-

eard “as Mr. Seward had uttered. * You should b-ar constantly in mind,” he wrote t) these geatlemen, ** although the loyal ses appear seperticially to be ina pros-

t ie dition, that evek te not the fact: t while the Government i¢ engaged in the s0 sion of a rebellion of unersuuopled { ness and mignitude, and is constantly i r the country of t's lnbouring ard pro ttion am iadiverting the mechani

i sry tran works ot peraanent value

t cunstraction ef taplements of war fi ww sare crewded, and the coun- » the same extent d-pleted, and waste and ex<'rayegine: prevail as they never b-fore Yr tee lin United States, the nation, ‘ r mic be the exrernsl indicat me, prospering foe war in which we are inwolwed is a stern necessity, and must be

prosecuted tor the preservation of the Gov-

ernment, oo matter what may be its cost; hat the eoiotryg wil anyuestionsable be the poorer ewery davit is@ontinaed. This esen-

ing prospertey of the loyal Sates te owing merely to the large exoenditure of the Gov nt and the redundant eurtency which Ires seem to reoder necessary. ”*

eran t eo @x prem lie

fs woun tap his @eand deetring by declar- ehroatiy tise “ splend:¢ financierting was levritraste hineeng.” and that mm tis wnion, *s did financiers were cither Aum- sor rasca’s Woen Me. Chase was ap- ited ote the Chief-Justiceship of the Saprem? Coart, the gentieman succeeded

freasury depsrtwent, where he eclll reapsins, the mght man in the right

piace, theee') prwerless to uado the m schiel dome hy hie peedecessor—miseief which was toreel apon that eminent functionary by the neeessities of a false position and the passions

of fia coonteymen, (Lo te concluded nert week.)

ANEOTS NEWS.

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VUBEN Vicrusia's BOOK. Fraa the Londoa Tunes, July 27.

this morning the publication ead by tre Eicslish It ia a eo

©! a volumes which will be

nile! Wuh loyal taterest. ivuUs | a ci. os calieliiaal P the late Prine shery vi tte eal¥ gears of the tate ice

C oosert, enriched be numerous memorandas

v's hand, containing the must m of the life and charac. ince, and even laying open to us, e, the private thoughts and 143 of the Queen herself during the period extends. It was orizin-

uireserved leseripti ter of the P t wreat Mieasu Tevet

erwmnel the volume vy compiled by General Givey, under Her esty's direction, ‘solely fur private circu-

lation, amoas the members of her own family,

oe sueh other persoa as, from the relati na in eh.they had stood tu her M ijesty or the Peinee Consort himself, would naturally be

j terested in the stury of his early days.’ unding this privacy, however, some tained lest a copy of thie volume light be surreptiously obtaived, and pub ished

a garbled furm, and it was thoazht that it

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which now aries in mute eloquence from the throne, for the sympathy, the prayers, the loyal selfgacrificing ald of every member of ber house, and ef every citizen ef our Christian nation on her behalf, whom God, in his Providence, has been pleased to spare, and in merey to continue to us as our beloved Sovereign.

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Alter this intreduction the volume proceeds | with an interesting accoont of the ancestora and neater relations of the Prince. Prince Albert's; father was Duke Ernest L of Saxe-Coburg-Saal- eld; bat not many years after Prince Albert's? birth the male line ef the alled beuse of Saxe | Gotha Altenbarg became extivet, and, by a fauily arrangement, Saalfeld passed te the Dukes of | Meiningen, while Gotha was attached vo the} Coburg family. Dake Ernest) in 1817) married the daughter of the late Duke of Gotha, and by her he had two eous—Ernest, the preseat rein | ing Dake, bern in PRIS, and Albert, the enbjeet| ot this memoir, en the Zoth of Anguat, IS19. A} memorandam, written by the Queen in 1864.) gives an account ef their mother and of her met anchely fate. She ia deveribed as “ very hand. seme, although very stnall, fair and with blee eves: aod Prince Albert ts said to bave beet ex- tremely like her.” She waa, moreover, fill of cleverness and talents. Dut the soarriage was! The Duke and Duchess were!

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neta happy ene separated in P8324, and divereed in 1826, aud the Juchess died in IS3Sl, an her thirty second year. | s always spoken ef with affection aad re-! and we are teld that “the Prince never forget ber, and epoke with much Ceuderness and | sorrow of his poor mother, and was deopiy alec ed in ready. after kis marciage, the seeounts of ber sad and painful tineas“' After bee death tu 331. Duke Ernest seen married again ; but, of course, under these circumstances, netther the ne ber per the stepmother of the two young princes had much control over their education. | Phey experienced, however, n@ lack of motherly | care: ter two grandmothers watched over them | from their earliest years with the most constant} anxiety. Their grandmother on the tacuer’s side, | the Dowager Duchess of Coburg Sa lteld, | lived at only a quarter of a mile’s distance on | one side of Coburg, at @ villa called Ketschendorff while Ros snaw, the sumer residence of the Duke, was but four miles on the viter side. On the birth of Prince Albert she waa stiimmened at mee to the bedeide of her daughter-in-law, and we fed her frown there writing lo announce the | happy event to her own daughter, the Duchess of Kent, in England. Phe Queen describes the Dichess as a very | remarkaole weman, “ with a most powerful, | energetic, alinest measculioe mind, accompanied | with great tenderness of beart and extreme lowe |

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of nature.” She was the mother, of course, net! auly of the Duchess of Kent, bat of Leopold, | ifterwards the King of the Belgians: and she} geerus to be another instanee of the rule that | great men have generally remarkable mothers The other relative who teok such an interest in the little princes was the Duchess of Saxe-Gotha, the secund wife of the Duke, and thus the step. | | mother of Duke Erneat’s first wife, and the} step-wother of hia twe sena, She leed at Rien. | ‘aardsbruon, near Gotha, and the children were! lnet three years old before she had obtained a| | visit from them there. ludeed, we are told * the} | rwe grandmothers seemed to vie with each other | fas to which should show the two children the! | most love and kindness "—and, we may add. as} |to which eheuld show the greatest prudence i managing them. It i from the letters of these | twe Duchesses that we get the best account ef the childheed and youth of the two young princes. 7 * * But this year (1836) is marked by a far more important event—mea first visit to Eng- land and his introduction to the Princess Victoria. The Duke and his twe sons arrived at the end of May, and were lodged in Kensington Palace, the! | residence of the Ducbeas of Keat. The Princess! jand he were each in their seventeenth year, the | Prineess being the eldest by a few monthe. We are vot told much of bia visit, but an interesting | menorandum by the Quven gives Us her impres- | | sion of him at that time:—

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The Prince was at that time much eborter | | than his brother, already very handseme, but} very stout, which be entirely grew out of after-!

wards. He was wost amtable, aatural, unaffec-

,| ted and merry; full of interest in every thing; |

playing on the plane with the princess,his cousin, drawing: in short constantly eecupied. He al-! ways paid the greatest attention to all he saw.) j and the Queen remembered well how intently he) fistened to the sermon preached in St. Paui's

Land one perhaps mere appalling than the fire itself,

i Ocles they liad managed to save; «tially clad, and all the picture ef despair and

} the night of the 3rd and tollowing day.

‘from whieh rt will net recover for generations te

j stable adjoining the hotel

| was told the General would be at dinner.

Sem asas . solar

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and prospects of the United States. | eluding part we will give in our next No. | ‘The articie is written with remarkable ability, | and abounds with | [udeed, we do uot know

one thought that the church wae ip danger, and Nuwbers of people had put what they had saved in it, in fancied security. About 4 20 o'clock this beautiful edifice, the pride at the colony, and J myht way of the West Indies, was —— on fire, aud thia was the last work of the deatreyer. The cloek on the tower struck seven, and at two ininutes past the body of the tower tell in, leaving the bands ominously pointing at two minutes past eeven as an indication of the end of the terrible work,

The dawning day brought a fearful sight to view,

/perspicuity, close reasoning, valuable information, when we have read any thing 01 9° dry a sub- ject as that of finance which has interested us Blackwood is @ periodical which ‘the newspaper press everywhere delights to | honour, and is accepted as an almost infallible the affairs of

Some time azo, wheu one

j30 much,

Thousands of houseless, homeless, and in aome cases utterly ruined people were scattered about the fields adjoining the town, with what few ar- some but par-

authority in its diseourses on

| foreign countries.

jor two of our local journals made fierce attacks misery. The eries for foed of theae people soon

on the Confederation praject, their principal became heartrending, and a grave consideration | ‘ i he taxation caine upon us as to how These people were to be | CTY Was, that under ¢ ontederation the taxati ted, as every barrel of flour had been consumed, and likewise every other Kind of provision. The Lieut. Governor very promptly sent off to Nevis : pit tor flour and bread, which they generously sup- iStates, and that the debt of the Confederacy plied, and a despatch was sent to Antiaga sulicit- | would be one of frizhtful magnitude, creating, mig aid, Nothing that Lean write will give you anything | like an approximate idea of the Cerrible xcenes on | British America and the great Republic, finan- The tire ee itself was the grandest sight L bave ever seen, and ‘s er : é : : i the glare was se great that a gentleman assures | than anything of the kind which exists in the ine that at Charleston, in Nevia, twelve miles dis tant, he could see to cead a paper io the street. "There is no doubt the ishind tas received a blow

onthe Provincial people would be greater than ithe taxation borne hy the citizens of the United

in proportion to the respective populations of

lL burthens more intolerable for the former

latter. We know that the taxation and debt |

of the Confederacy remain precisely as they |

were betore the establishment of the Domimion,

come, “The government have already proposed | aig ase not “au sacheme fo borrow Ibeney en goverment gece | a gas rity, te lend the merchants te enable them te re- | ut we had no conception ot the terrific maz- build their houses: but the scheme Uaeli is not | situde ofthe taxation and debt of the United matured, and the details are not yet kaown. —2 > = -

ASSASSINATION OF THE Tearror Loprz.— | to. A letter trom Mexico gives the following detatle | of the asaassination of Lopez who betrayed Maxi- milan :—" L arrived here to-day, and learned the stardling news of the assassination of the traitor Lopez. ‘The particulars of the assassination are aa tollows: Lopez was stopping at a botel in Puebla. where bis wife spurned hin from her pre- Karly one morning a Mexiean arrived and tumiliarized himself with a hestler ina livery Geo. Miguel Lopez was inquired tor, but net being in, the stranger Botore dinner hour Lopey returned, and was pointed out tothe stranger, who made special note of his moun. Wheo dinner waa called, Lopez and his assassin occupied opposite seate at the table. After some minutes, during which thd the stranger called tor and drank a giass of wine, he deliverately rose, drew a conevaled kate, and | descriptions of scenery were eloquent and sprang upon Lopez and stabbed him vine tines. | ce at ‘The stranger then tack bis bat, and, as he started ibeantiful to a remarkable dezree, and the toleave, said: * This isthe way all traiturs should | narrative part, especially relatiag to

be paid.” Re enn inturfored, or prevented the | patties of Preston Paus and Culloden, was a terse, assasain from leaving. Thus was the dlood of

Maximilian, Miramon, Mejia, yea, and thousands | Compact, and lucid com positiva,

ot a avenged. Pius report is regarded as |in many of its parts, evoked bursts of applause, authentic. ae ‘ :

> | aTordiag thereby unmistakeable testimony to the _ Poraons troubled with cramp in the stomach, | hrillianey of Me. Campbell's intellectual powers. side or bowels, sore throa, &e by a combined | | internal and external application of Jehuson’s Anodyne Liniment cannot fail of certaia and | presided on the occasion, the thanks of the speedy cure.

likely to chanze for the worse;

| States until we read the article herein referred We recommend it to the esreful consider- ation of those who think that annexation to

ithe United States is preferrable to a Federal

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ox Patnce Cuanian. — Duncan

Union of all the Provinces. | Leerere

senee. (Campbell, Esyr., lately of Gras sow, but now

lof Halifax, lectared iu the Temperance Hull,

‘in this City, on Tuesday evening last, taking |

for his subject the adventures aod achievements ‘of Prince Charles Wlward Stewart. The lee: ‘ture occupied nearly two hours in the delivery, ‘and was consilered by the large audience who

listened to it a very brilliant effort. Some } 3

the

The leetare,

) At the suggestion of the Hon. Col. Gray, who |

ee audience were tendered, by unanimous consent, |

Turk CREAN Conruice.—a sarge andience |to Mr. Campbell for his successful efort to met ia Willia’s Rooms, Londen, on the 19th ult., | ao “8 , gene. to hear an address from Mr. J. BE. Hilary Skinner, | de light and instruct the xt -". ot Liacolu’s Lea, on the Cretan couflict and the | people who assembled to hear him, present condition of Crete. Mr. Skinner, whe has ——_—

Jest returned from Candia, said that the state-| pay Hox. Me. Cores took a short cruise in mente uiade by sous Chat the movement was en | mh ‘ » .

tirely a foreign one were not correct. ‘To ne ap- ithe Dominion Cutter La Cuinadienne, which preciable extent, although a few Greeks, sympa- was in our harbour last week, and proceeded thising in the stragyle, went over a volynteers, . a aie ae Cain 4 Greek one. ‘The atrocities (Me@tly as far as Gaspe, when he found the that had been comuntted by the Turks were hor- | Canadian Steamer Her Majesty proceeding to ribly cruel, but the charges that had been made against the Cretaus of a similar character gene- i f rally meant nothing more than astern and almost | wheat, meal, &c., on board of which he proceed- Necessary treatment of the enemy. They had, in faet, not the epportanity af perpetrating the werat outrages of which the Turks were guilty, for their opponents had no women or ehildren exposed to danger, while the Cretan villages were aubjeet to be captured, and their inhabitants submitted to every horror by the Turkish soldiery. Some 10,- 000 persons who were incapable of resistance had | ~— already escaped, but in a venp little while, unless |

concourse of

Shediac, with a very valuable carso of flour,

‘edon his homeward journey to Shediac,and ar- rived thence inthe Priacess of Wales on Satur- day evening. We are vlad to learn that the health of the honorable gentleman has been much im- | proved by his trip, thou sh a short one. ee A BAND oF Girstes have encamped ona

| Heavy Hammer.—Huzh McDonald, Geor se-| 50 daily. | town, rick McLeod, Strathalbyn, 69 ft. 10 in.

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| machiuery, and were in a position to manufue. | ture every thing in their line that the trade berg Lith prize, Gunner W. Wyact, Ist Artillery, While the United States is stag gering under ‘demanded, The cause of the fire isa mystery, points, 15s, an enormous load of public debs—while the} as there had been no fire for some time in the 12th prize, Private W. C. Whita, Prince of Wales | Pegoral Government owes 24 billions,the States, department where the flames weve first diseuy. Rifles, 23 poiate, 12s 6d. ; larre amuunts—the Counties, Cities and Town- ered.—St. John Globe, Vth. 13th prize, Lt. D. Tobin, Lrish Rifles, 23 points, | ships heavy sums; while they are paying in| 10s. ‘ ai ee Re orn azgrezate not less than 500 millions of | The St. John Telegraph publishes the ramor ‘~e eee” Newbery, Reyaty & "| dollars per annum as interest; while rer that the Hon. Messrs. Wilmot, Mitchell, Me. - * iia: ss hey —- iia wa DR is taxed from the baby's rosset to the old man’s Clelan, and MeMillan had resigned their sents aii san — Shee, omy RH collin ; while these ines obatacles to imini- | in the New Brunswick Government ; that Hon, ees ae and 500 yards, The priority ef) gration lie in the way, the United States is the | Messrs. Skinner and Wetmore had been sworg ties was decided by extra shota, Tne first] great goal for the emigrant, From lightly | in Executive Couneillors, aud Haun. A. C. Deg. prize was the Silver Medal of the National With taxed countries an immense and steadily in-| Brisay, of Restizouche, and Hon. R. Sutton, of Asweiation of England, and £5 from His Bx. creasing immigration is going oa tu the over | Northamberland, appointed; and that Hon, celleney the Commander in-Chief, and £5 trow That some should flock | George Kerr is expected to bs ween te Pea the Grant of the Colonial Government. Another Ss ts onid thet Mn. Ghbaaun Medal aceompanied the second prize. Se. Wetanes all There has been a very marked unprovement on the firing of last year--the 4th prize making

UNITED STATES.

10th prize, Capt. G. Dogherty, Ist Queen's County Militia, 24 pointe, £1. a] ‘ }

burd-ned republic. thither at all events is natural; but that the} vincial Secretary. volume of immigration should be, not merely | will be Solicitor General, maintained, but largely augmented, under the | no office for the present. pressure of gigantic debt, a high tariuf, heavy

a higher score than the Let prize of isu. | d Lace tae Abi crecicaiaineasniciapiiilliatsie tS aie. _Dovenss Swere, Cot, Insy. Militia, | internal taxes, and an inflated, irredeemable ei Tee et ae As) ——— a ———— curréney, is a puzzle to political economists. LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH,

LATEST FROM EUROPE, ; ; Loxvos, Aug. 19.—It is reported that the Sublime Porte has received au urgent note, in behalf of the suffering Cretans, from the Go- vernment of the United States.

CALEDONILAN GATHERING! Tinmi rants are still pouring in at the rate of GREAT MEETING OF THE CLANS !! 4 thousand per day.

Tue Fifth Annual Gathering of the « Cale donian Club,” came off on Wednesday last, oa a beautiful field on Government Farin, kindly set apart for the occasion by His Excellency the Lieut. Governor, ‘The day was deli zhtfally fine, and a lrrge number of persons trom the neighboring Provinces, and all parts ot the Island, were on the yvround to witness the diferent performances. The Ciub assembled in the moraing at Masons’ Hall, Water Street, where they were joined by the officers of the Benevolent Irish Society, of this City—from whenee they marched in procession to the Grounds, with the Bagpipes playing and the Banners of the two Sucieties tluating in the

The compositors of the Iduho Statesman must be afflicted with mysterious caligraphy. Hear what the editur says in their behalf :— | “The compositors in this office wish that * Don} Loui,’ our Owhyee correspondent, would quit |

Vienna, Aug. 19.—The Austrian Govern. ment has pledyed itself to enlarge the civil and ~ religious libertics of the Piotestants of the empire.

writing his letters with a pewter spoqn. The liues made are scarcely discernabic. Just as! well to use sweet milk and splinter. Try a ; chanze of fluid, by all means—yood black ink, . Loxpox, Aug. 20, noon.—Consols 943 ; 5. for inustanee. Correspondents generally will 20's 724. Markets unchanyed.

please remember to always write the first three| Rome, Aur. 20.—The mission of the United lines, at least, of their letters in a (to printers States at the Holy See, having been discon. only) legible style—just to let us have a Vague | tinued, the American Legatioa in the city has idea of the subject. By so doing we think our! been closed.

boys can always dish up for them quite a res-| Lospos, Aug. 20.—Lord Monck has not

breeze ab! “1 " : : i

. a ; ectable correspoadence. returne Sarl: but will remain one ¥

At two o'clock, the four Town Companies P ’ | returned ” & agrand, Nes wie rome , ae oP cecieaaiis silk teinieuth thbtem Mhadnaieii Fi ere , llouger in Canada at the head of the new

0 yiunteers, a , A “local itemizer’’ bewails, through the) Goyernment.

Companies from the Country, the whole under the command of Major Beer, were reviewed by Colonel the Hon. J. He Gray, and put through various Military evolutious. The Club suspended their Games while the troops were being reviewed.

The proceeds of the day are to be given to the ** Wallace Monument Fuad.’ Competi- tors were ouly allowed one chance. Com- petitors fur the Pole Vaulting, and also the Hish Leap were at a great disalvantase, on account of the unevea surface of the ground. Mr. Hash McDonald, of Georgetown, and Mec. Patterson, of Halifax, we understand, very generously donated their prizes tu the * Wal- luce Mouument Fund.’

coluinns of the Savannah Republican, the | Cadtriueeacte) Aaa Siived ie misery of a dull day in the Savannah courts: | ee ee 7

. ; .. ithe minister who accompanied the Sulta “No one drunk ; none disorderly ; no criminal | art ; e os as {3 \throughout his western tour, has gone tu the appropriations of chickens, old iron or such) (5 > Pe ms hala . ; Crimea to meet the Emperor Alexander of like; nobody drowned, killed or wounded; no Dash ‘ °° . re . . i DP like tiring pistols in the streets, no little boys fight-| a ne ing—nothiny, literally nothing, oceurred yes-| Loxpox, Aug. 20.—Though it is difficult to terday to break the melancholy monotony of a| Obtain very relixble tuformation from Spain, day to be reme:nbered by thé future chrouicler | Yet it is known that Gen. Prim is still at the of current events, We asked one of the magis-| head of the insurrection, which has not been trates how wag business, and he answered—j quelled. It is reported that Gen. Prim is sup- ° . . . - ‘s a . ere 7 > on orn loll Rad for the masistrates, but good for| plied with funds by prominent hankera in Paris. the people ; and we thought of the sexton who! Liverroot, Aus. 21.—The important suit complained of the extreme duluess of business | of the West India and Pacific steamship Co, in his line, saying that he hadn't buried a lieiay | vs. Williams & Guion, just tried in the Liver- person during the whole week,” | pool Court of Assize, has resulted in a judy.

LIST OF SUCCESSFUL COMPETITORS. ane | ment for the Plainti ts, with damages assessed Heavy Stone.—Ist prize, Fredrick Horne, The New York Tribune thinks that there is | at 150,000 pounds sterling. This suit grew Soringvale Volunteers, 28 ft. 3 in. 2d|no limit to be placed to Presideat Jovhuson’s | out of the Nitro-Giycerine explosion at Aspin-

wall, New Granada, on the 2nd April, 1566, by lwhich the steamship ** European,”’ belonging

Cholera prevails at Nivaragua. Ta the city! to the plaintiffs, was destroyed while lying at of Leon people were dying at the rate of 40 to) her wharf in the above named place.

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prize, Martin Martin, Belle Creek, 20 ft. 11 in, | capacity for incapacity.

Rusning Leap—Hash McLeod, Strathalbyn, Litt. 2 prize, Kenneth Henderson, Litt: York Volunteers, 13 ft. 9 in.

oe : | Saraznvre, Aug. 20.—Tae Emperor Napoa- ods An army of officials nuimberinz upwards Of} eon held a lung conference to-day with Baron 170,000 is rey ured toc lect aad tLaxe ¢are at iVon Buest, the Prime Minister of Austria. ithe Taternal Revenue Reevipts of the Republic. | Biennale 983, 5-20's 732.

This is larver ti he wl 2 U.S. arming before! : . his is larger than the whole U.S, army befor? | aid nominally unchanged. | the war.

74 feet 7 inches. 2d prize, Breadstuiks quiet

Hop, Step and Leap. —Ist prize, Predk Horne, Lard firm at 5ls,

Sovingvale Volunteers, 35 ft. Sin. 2d prize, Doiuald MePhee, West River, 33 ft. Ll in. Light Stone.—tIst prize, Donald Ross, Strath-

albyn, 41 ft. 2d prize Fredk Horne, Spring:

7 Saupzavag, Ang. 20, even.—The private in- terviews which have taken place betweea the

inperors of France and Austria, aid between

2-44>0- ——__-_——_——_ CAN ADA,

vale Volunteers, 37 ft. 7 in. ants : ‘ DNS cel ei ORs . : menial Hurdle Race.—Ist prize, Husch MeLeod The Hon. Mr. MeGiee, who is confined to his | N#poleon and Baron Von Buest, have a a rot — . preee, . vispaaia ’ ina rood tuderstanding, butuy trealy has been

room by severe indisposition, addcessed a letter McLeod, Brown's Creck, 71 tt. 9 in. j to the Ch vivinan of his Blection Co nmmitter, Flat Rice.—Ist prize, Alex Cameron. Strath: | which has heen published on the M yitredl

papers, in which we tind the following :—* I

albyn, 24, Hector Campbell, Arzyle Shore. |} ’

Sack Rice.—Ist prize, Donald MeLeod, Strath seud for the Executive Comnittee w letter | ulbya, 24, John M-Leod, Strathalbyn. Waraings me ol assassination, if ta wre disclose |

[Tossing the Caber—lst prize, Frederick | the history of the attempts to establish Penisen-

| TTorne, Springvale Voluateers, 23 {t. 4 in, | 8mm Montreal the last few years.

Strathalbyn, 77 ft. 4 ia. 24 prize, Rodk }

| imide.

Viexya, Ang. 20, even —All the official | journals declare that the peace of Germany is ;uow secured,

Loxpox, Aug. 21, (-venins )—The nperial The Queen

Was not present, but the speech from the

| Parliament was prorogued to-day. Also, an!

21, Douald Stewart. Strathalbyn, 25 tt. 10 in. ha seuius lustration of a gallows and collin, | Throne was read by-a Royal commission, | Ravmag High Leap.—1 st prize, Hush M-Leod, | which came to me evel sed in the Bn Talo | The Queen declared that thete ks aa Strathalbyn, 5 fest 6 in. 2ud, David Rat- Fenian Volunteer of Jaly 27th, with the in-{ any vround for apprehension of war... .-. tery, M ssl Stewart, 5 feet. seription underneath :—* You arch-trattor, if The treacoanabie cous) acy in Ireland has

you oppose Devlin, by frod, such will be your , Fr als a Ken} _— 3 } oo abhee i i i

fate! 1 er send the I ian paper asit came) been supressed almost without bivodshed,

to me marked. J he Committoe will observe | by the valor of the troops. the vigilance and

Vaulting with Pole.—lLst prize, David Rattery, | the senteace in Ge ge ( wpnare aprart, M) activity of the police, and the general loyalty

. > - Ps . ° - - , 2 , , ° ennas 2 | . - ’ seal -

Mount Stewart, 8 ft. 2ad, James Forbes,! ¥ hich you will find the following choice bit) of the people. Law has beeu preserved witle

Boys’ Race under 16 years.—lst prize, Wil- proved futile, and the attemot at revolt hag liam Lannon, Charloitetuwa. 2ud, John

Potter, Charlottetown.

micht be pradent te avert this danger. But) when he and hia father and brother aceompanied & iotaeg motive prompted the publication of the | the Duchess of Kent and the Princess there, oa ‘h will be best deseribed in the! the occasion of the service attended by tue chil- | dren ot the diffrent charity schoola, Lt is, in- | deed, rare te see a prince not yet seventeen years | of age bestuwiug such earnest atteutiun upon a) serinon.

From Lendon the prinees returned through

Wil

the p face itself:

volume, words Oi

* Acting apon the opinion of several persons jel ement she had the #reatest

we: believing also that the free and unre- sceved expression which the volume contains |! P her as well as those of Peines, ig such as, if made public (however | and accompanying their uncie te reviews and

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uvasaal such pablicity may be), will command | other excursions. While bere rumeurs were al-

Wise ‘onfi- . 1.4

ywa feelings,

aris to Brussels, where tuey stayed until April) the | of 1837, studying modern languages and history, |

charitable aid ware forthcoming, they would be!

compelled to suffer every kind of hardship. Even in the face of the recent anfavourable intelligenee (which he knew waa exaggerated.) he felt eon- vinced the Cretans would continue the struggle although the warfare must necessarily be of the guerilla nature, where regular strategy could not be followed, or set principles in the art of war be acted upon. He had seen the villagers at the alarm, ‘the Turks are at hand.” leave their | ordinary eecupations, throw down the implementa ‘in the field or the tools in the house, snatch the

tie entire symoathy of every cae whose sym-/| ready spread of an intended martiage between! riff: from the shelf, and fix the long Knife in the

ithy or soud epiaion is te be desired; and, | the Prince and the future Queen of Mngland, but

it there is not one werd, | nothing, the Queen tells us, had been decided at) their every day business—as, indeed, it was,

girdle, and hasten ont te meet the for as if it were

He

sT. KITPTs.

| dan’s Cavalry Condition Powders. The following letter deseribing the destruction |

the completeness of his!

ms nitv in aii : } this purpose she hus con- |

Ttract , uid for

assistance could be got the large warehouses of, | Megara. Wade and Abbott were discovered to be. fore, has established, by | on fire These comprised a dry goods establiah- |

thie peculiar claim to the s mpa- ment, provision etere and lumber yard. During| tay of lee subjects. Bat even apart from this | the bnruing of Measra. Wade and Abbott's store | +t of the volume would | the fire engines came on the apot, but, and to! relate, they proved utterly useless, and the fire!

invst heart/elt sympathy’?

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; ‘ } Bm iw Value, ww SUD

sullicientt» awaken the most lively interest. | °! is , }

huslishon have wever ceased to do homave| brigade worse than useful, The engines would)

tu the great and good Prince of whom ofetes /uet work, and the hore was found to be ont of | & a’ % vi e | a “ $

; Pe ls AE gag “hl > |order, The men were most incompletely aceout-

Patroductory | oq. Not a hatchet, or a rope, or a hucket was_ which, if we mistake not, there |e be seen aineng them, and everything waa in

4 ror the Queen $ own land, | the utmost confusion and disorder, Besides thie. | of the Prinee’s character, and} although the town ia abundantly stpplied with |

ure Mauy touch

: f i¢ the features of most interest | water, it was found in the hour of need that no! ey present volume, The intention of fur | water was to be had, ae it was locked off at the | bil if a titing memoir of the Pvince jg| resevorr, two miles out of town. During the} modestiy disclaimed. The work © will contain | burning of Messra Wade's and Abbott's atore, | *# coupilation of letters and wemoranda, the | the stores and dwelling houses of Mr. Udale and | at sit those of the Prings himself and of Me. Palmer, on the other side of the same street, |

{ Queen, from which materials gay at the| were discovered te be on fire. There buildinga) ities tan atitometed lee “ies burned with astonishing rapidity and the flames |

j ) Xtra lor Such & memoir as now epread in one direction towards the Public |

may be viven tothe world.’ But, » remesk ; | wb ' } i rid iat en the remarks | Library and Reading Rooms, and the stores in|

t ‘Oe We i | “cree iy ar . —— * * : . °